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Thursday, February 24, 2011

LIBYA - Kadhafi threatens his people

"The challenge of Gaddafi: 'I'm staying, I will die here,'" as the Rome daily. Transalpine press follows closely the events in Libya, which Italy is the first economic partner. February 22, Silvio Berlusconi, the chairman, has also talked on the phone with Muammar Gaddafi. A few hours earlier, the "Guide" had appeared again on television, to engage in "its last show of the tyrant," reported the newspaper: he threatened his opponents of the death penalty, and he assured would fight "until the last drop of [his] blood." According to Tripoli, the repression would have done for now at least 300 deaths.

In the evening, Younes Abdel Fatah, the interior minister, announced he was resigning to join the protesters.